AIMSdashboard Adds ShieldHub Criminal Risk Scoring for Better Safety and Management

ShieldHub, a nationwide technology services portal that delivers vendor criminal risk scoring and monitoring solutions, is pleased to announce that ShieldHub is now integrated into AIMSdashboard’s AIMS platform, a leading vendor management solution for the mortgage and real estate industries. This strategic collaboration empowers clients to elevate vendor due diligence protocols and enhance homeowner/borrower safety by seamlessly incorporating comprehensive criminal history data into their vendor management processes. Additionally, the integration enables thousands of appraisers to dynamically showcase their credentials, as they can now maintain and synchronize their ShieldScores directly within the AIMS platform.

“We’re excited to be working with an industry leader like AIMS, who understands the transformational power of data in understanding the vendors engaged in customer facing roles. ShieldScore™ sets a new standard in safety by providing tools lenders and other financial services companies need to understand criminal risk within their vendor panels,” said Shane Copeland. “With this integration, AIMS is launching several new features that enable vendor managers to quickly identify and evaluate the criminal risk of contractors representing their brand.”

“AIMS remains steadfast in enhancing business controls that empower our clients to implement competency-based appraiser selection while actively operationalizing client-configured policies and procedures,” said Chris Williams, CEO of AIMS. “This ShieldHub integration delivers an added layer of due diligence—a solution that surpasses the reliability of traditional background checks.”

Traditional background checks, like appraisals, are static and apply only to their effective date. In contrast, ShieldHub’s evergreen API-driven processes continuously monitor each individual to provide a current quantifiable composite score to reveal cases requiring individualized assessments.

Williams continued, “Once an appraiser links their AIMS profile to their ShieldHub ShieldID, AIMS maps and synchronizes ShieldScore data within their profile. Granting clients access to their ShieldScore data streamlines the sharing of the appraiser’s ShieldScore and the promulgation of any changes thereafter.” Reciprocally, lenders and investors can craft policies to trigger individualized risk assessments based on specific ShieldScore events, establishing a proactive manage-by-exception approach.

ShieldHub is a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) compliant criminal background-monitoring technology solution that enables a risk composite ShieldScore™ indicator for managing risk while engaging independent contractors. Unlike periodic background checks, ShieldHub includes continuous 24/7 monitoring and alerts when an independent contractor is out of compliance with the client’s risk policy. ShieldHub assigns each user a unique anonymized ShieldID™ (ABC#) that provides partners with evidence of risk compliance and assurance to independent contractors that they have control of limiting the sharing of sensitive personal information with multiple clients or partners. Additionally, since the ShieldID™ number is owned by the individual, for the first-time independent contractors have complete portability to share their score to any ShieldHub partner while avoiding the redundant and costly nature of multiple background checks.